Word: clingingly
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...Pierce, No. 1415 North Meridian St., Indianapolis. The Pierce gingko is more than 8 ft. around. Planted when no larger than a walking stick, it grew amazingly, its roots bathed in soapy drainage from the Pierce laundry. The gingko, bright yellow in autumn, has a curious habit of shed-cling each and every one of its leaves in a single night...
...unlike the U. S. educational system is Canada's. To each province, as to each U. S. state, is left the administration of public grade schools, high schools, colleges. But Canadian colleges cling to English form and traditions, resemble Harvard, Yale, Princeton rather than the Universities of Michigan, Nebraska, California...
MANKIND likes to cling to its superstitions and mysteries as long as it can, and Dr. Hawes goes at the task of tearing them away from the medical profession as if he expected to be accused of sacrilege. But it is the fashion nowadays to reduce science into terms intelligible to the layman, and his tone of frankness will be appreciated by those who want to understand the causes and reasons for their ailments...
...plasters should be applied delicately to the pit of the stomach. Wrote impish Mr. McAndrew: "Closer than a brother will this preserver of composure cling, even through your daily baths, until, at last, on terra firma once more, there comes the quick sharp pang of parting...
Rapid changes in a progressive society necessitate new legal codes and judicial methods. The average lawyer is too prone to cling to the traditional systems, which he absorbed in youth, without considering the advisability of their application today. State legislatures, for the most part, are composed of small-town lawyers too often bound not only by their legal but by the popular prejudices of their constituents. In such matters as this the opinion of the law expert, constantly in touch with all new ideas as well as familiar with the heritage of the past, may well be of significance...